Globular cluster 47 Tucanae [VLT view]
esahubble_heic0616c October 24th, 2006
Credit: Very Large Telescope/European Southern Observatory, R. Kotak and H. Boffin (ESO)
A photo of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae taken with the Very Large Telescope, in Chile. It is one of the densest globular clusters in the Southern hemisphere. The cluster contains one million stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0616c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0616c
- Subject Category
- B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- 47 Tucanae
- Credits
- Very Large Telescope/European Southern Observatory, R. Kotak and H. Boffin (ESO)
- Release Date
- 2006-10-24T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0616c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT), Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- Instrument
- FORS1, FORS1, FORS1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- R, V, U
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 6.02682922129, -72.0817963686
- Reference Dimension
- 1224.0, 2028.0
- Reference Pixel
- 612.0, 1014.0
- Scale
- -4.6237216534e-05, 4.6237216534e-05
- Rotation
- 74.319999999999965
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0616c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0616c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-10-23T12:19:39-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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